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Verlag: William Griffin, London, 1767
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
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First edition, with half-titles. First edition, with half-titles. [4], iv, [ii], [1]- 167 [i.e. 269], [1]; [6], 262 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Each poem has an unsigned short preface by Goldsmith. Later marbled paper over boards [4], iv, [ii], [1]- 167 [i.e. 269], [1]; [6], 262 pp. 2 vols. 12mo.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1357550219ISBN 13: 9781357550219
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Printed for William Griffin, London, 1767
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
175 x 105 mm. (6 7/8 x 4 1/4"). Two volumes. PRETTY RED MOROCCO, GILT, BY STIKEMAN & CO. (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers framed by gilt fillets, oblique lancet tools at corners, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with lancet centerpiece and leafy curls at corners, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Samuel F. Barger. ESTC T146028. â Gutter open at final leaf of volume I, one opening with marginal printer's smudge, other trivial imperfections, but still a fine, attractive set, the text fresh and clean, and the appealing bindings with almost no signs of use. This well-known work on English poetry was written by one of the major literary figures of the 18th century and attractively covered by a leading American binder somewhere around the turn of the 20th century. Ranging from Pope and Milton to lesser-known bards like Gay and Garth, the present collection of poetry was chosen by writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728? - 1774), who also wrote brief introductions to many of the poems, and added extensive explanatory footnotes to Pope's "Use of Riches." During the period from the retirement of William Matthews to the establishment of the Club Bindery, there was no better binder in America than Henry Stikeman, who exhibited "extraordinary skill . . . in design, inlaying, and tooling." (Maser Collection) Stikeman's firm did high-end publisher's bindings as "bread and butter" work, and luxurious gilt-tooled bindings for collectors. According to Jeff Stikeman, binding expert (and great-great grandson of Henry's brother George), those bindings signed "Stikeman" or "Stikeman & Co." (as here) are finished by hand, as opposed to the firm's later blocked bindings, which are signed "Stikeman & Co., NY." The former were done from 1887 to about 1915, the latter from 1915 to 1939. The hand tooled bindings are very much more desirable. The attractive set comes from the library of lawyer and railroad financier Samuel F. Barger (1832-1914), a longtime director of Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York Central Railroad. FIRST EDITION, First State (volume I with pp. 265-69 misnumbered pp. 165-169, p. 145 with catchword "Thoug").
Verlag: London: for William Griffin, 1767, 1767
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition, complete with the half-titles and contents leaves in both volumes. This is a particularly nice copy, in a handsome unrestored contemporary binding, of this scarce anthology of English poetry selected by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), published the year after The Vicar of Wakefield. The selection includes such near-contemporary works as Pope's "Rape of the Lock", Gray's "Elegy", Johnson's "London", and Young's "Night Thoughts", as well as Milton's earlier "Il Penseroso" and "L'Allegro", and is an excellent introduction to 18th-century taste. Goldsmith's Preface states the book's intention to "shew them what is beautiful, and inform them why it is so", to which end each poem is introduced by a succinct critical commentary. The author closes his preface by wryly hoping that "this work be useful in schools, or amusing in the closet". 2 volumes, octavo (167 x 101 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt-tooled in compartments with raised bands gilt-rolled and two gilt morocco title labels (one red, one tan) each, board edges gilt-rolled. Extremities lightly rubbed, a few minor marks and scratches to calf, small chip to calf at the head of spine of volume I, corners bumped, joints sound, internally fresh but for ink marks and a small perforation to leaf B4 and otherwise some very faint spotting and the occasional minor mark. An excellent copy.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0483854425ISBN 13: 9780483854420
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 274 | Sprache: Englisch.